The Create New Environment wizard in the AWS Management Console guides you through
the creation of an environment step by step, with a bevy of options for configuring
the
resources that Elastic Beanstalk deploys on your behalf. If you are just getting started,
you can use the
default values for many of these options without issue.

Note

Creating an environment requires the permissions in the Elastic Beanstalk full access
managed policy.
See Elastic Beanstalk User Policy for
details.

Follow this procedure to launch a new environment running the default application.
These
steps are simplified to get your environment up and running quickly. See The Create New Environment Wizard for more
detailed instructions with descriptions of all of the available options.

Elastic Beanstalk supports multiple configurations for most platforms listed. By default, the console selects the
latest version of the language, web container, or framework supported by Elastic Beanstalk. If your application requires
an older version, choose Configure more options, as described below.

For App code, choose Sample application.

If you want to further customize your environment, choose Configure more options. The following options can be set only during
environment creation:

Environment name

Domain name

Platform configuration

VPC

Tier

The following settings can be changed after environment creation, but require new
instances or other resources to be provisioned and can take a long time to apply: